Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
The land above frequent flood levels and the lower slopes of hills are now (1998) housing subdivisions of the rapidly expanding city of Cairns.
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Image No. 4-2Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics
Sugar cane growing, fire degraded Imperata and Melinis grasslands and surviving patches of mesophyll vine forest
Freshwater area, near Cairns, Queensland
September 1972
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Mesophyll vine forest, lowlands and foothills on metamorphics.